c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
"My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish." — Harold Pinter
"Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis." — Mary Kay Ash
"Everything that's bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that's the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people." — Gil Scott-Heron
"Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations." — Ron Lewis
"Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man." — Leon Trotsky
"The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way." — Charles Rangel
"When I'm on stage, it's a little world I've created where I'm sort of the thing, so I have total control over everything that happens. When we're improvising, I'm with someone I totally trust. I know things are going to work out. I don't have those guarantees in life. There are no consequences on stage." — Colin Mochrie
"That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer." — Jacob Bronowski
"The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws." — Andrew Jackson
"I've never been more in love with anyone nearly half my age than I am today. I'd get married in a minute if I weren't still married to somebody else." — Rod Stewart
"I was writing short films and I was going through this really, really, really terrible end of a relationship that I didn't want to be going through. It was too much for me to process and all of a sudden I had this idea for my first feature film and I knew right away I had to start writing it." — Evan Glodell
"I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up." — Shania Twain
"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people." — Mahatma Gandhi
"True change takes place in the imagination." — Thomas Moore
"It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior." — Scarlett Johansson
"But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication." — Tony Conrad
"You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing." — Greg LeMond
"I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that." — Linda Ellerbee
"Reason is an action of the mind knowledge is a possession of the mind but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so." — Michael Ramsey
"Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts." — Lee Westwood
"I'm a fan of action movies." — Kate Beckinsale
"I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know." — Christopher Walken
"I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans." — Rachel Weisz
"Finality is not the language of politics." — Benjamin Disraeli
"The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself." — Jeffrey Kluger
"My mom is great and I make sure that we pray together before every race. She helps me put everything in perspective and remind me of the real reason I run." — Allyson Felix
"I have a hotline to the tabloids. When I get up in the morning, I call the Star, and the last thing at night, I call them. I want them to have the inside track." — Kirstie Alley
"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." — Bertrand Russell
"No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings." — Peter Drucker
"To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy." — Henri Frederic Amiel
"Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs." — Herbert Hoover
"Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love." — Claude Monet
"Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead." — Giacomo Casanova
"An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness." — Clara Barton
"And if you're not going to have a clear health threat, you don't want to panic people." — William Scranton
"The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby." — Natalie Wood
"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." — George Orwell
"I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science." — Sara Paretsky
"My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is." — Bar Refaeli
"People don't follow titles, they follow courage." — William Wells Brown
"I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started." — Jim Carrey
"The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men." — Emile Zola
"A smile is a curve that sets everything straight." — Phyllis Diller
"Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down." — Michael Crichton
"I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't." — Olivia Munn
"To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality." — Cliff Shaw
"The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him." — Italo Calvino
"It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship." — Henry A. Wallace
"I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men." — Julianna Baggott
"My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else." — Martin Scorsese
"All experience is subjective." — Gregory Bateson
"Yes. I did more research than I ever wanted to and saw some things I wish I didn't. I went on ride-alongs, spent time with Homicide, Cold Case, and SVU detectives, hung out in subways learning how to spot pervs and pick-pockets, viewed an autopsy, went to a police firing range, and witnessed court cases and I read, read, read." — Mariska Hargitay
"I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare." — Andrew Wyeth
"I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny." — Zell Miller
"Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living." — Vanessa Redgrave
"We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream it may be so the moment after death." — Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse." — Golda Meir
"We all love musical architecture there's no doubt about that." — Levon Helm
"The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable." — Edward Hopper
"The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times." — James Buchan
"Our technology is very scalable. Our software can accommodate enormous numbers of clients. It's a marvelous opportunity. We'll keep developing products." — Jay Chiat
"Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them." — Daisaku Ikeda
"Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry." — Susan B. Anthony
"To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something." — Shel Silverstein
"We shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of music within those five main performers." — Neil Tennant
"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong." — Ella Fitzgerald
"Anything you're good at contributes to happiness." — Bertrand Russell
"People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid." — Henry James
"Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family. I've always been attracted to temporary families. They tend to be lost characters." — Gus Van Sant
"A friendship like love is warm a love like friendship is steady." — Thomas More
"I did find some time to go to a record store and check out 'Headstrong' actually in the racks. It was pretty cool I never thought I'd see my own CD sitting there with everyone else's. I made my Mom take lots of pics!" — Ashley Tisdale
"If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos." — Robert Quillen
"We've worked very hard as a band and would like to think we've got this far on the strength of our music." — Caroline Corr
"I'd always assumed that I would die at about the same age as my dad - he was 45. I am five years in credit now. I can't get my head around the fact that I am older than he was - ever." — Ian Hislop
"There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority." — Orison Swett Marden
"Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness." — B. H. Liddell Hart
"Genius is initiative on fire." — Holbrook Jackson
"To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life." — Walter Pater
"The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere." — Empedocles
"I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out, all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products." — Shigeru Miyamoto
"Knowledge fills a large brain it merely inflates a small one." — Sydney J. Harris
"Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act." — A. E. Housman
"When I go to a concert, I can't help but feel happy and everything else just goes away. I hope everyone feels that way at my concerts." — Victoria Justice
"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy." — Friedrich Nietzsche
"I trust no one totally." — Gary Sheffield
"The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently." — Emma Thompson
"You've got to set yourself up to be as healthy as you can. The thing we tend to do is when it gets to be a bit too hard, we actually opt out for the absolute worst option. For example, if you're in a rush in a morning and you feel like you don't have time to make breakfast, you skip it." — Curtis Stone
"The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems." — Robert D. Kaplan
"Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?" — Walt Whitman
"Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also." — Theodor Adorno
"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life." — Robert A. Heinlein
"If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works." — Noam Chomsky
"A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day." — Maggie Gyllenhaal
"All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful." — Liz Smith
"I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from." — Caleb Carr
"I always market research my books before I hand them in by showing them to five or six close friends who I trust to be honest with me, so they are very heavily re-written already." — Helen Fielding
"Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have." — Ronald Reagan
"In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route." — Charles Eames
"I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning." — Dave Eggers
"I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, 'Looks like you're writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you'll get more money.'" — Demetri Martin
"Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another." — Charles Caleb Colton
"I can speak Esperanto like a native." — Spike Milligan
"And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow." — Peter Tosh
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places." — Ernest Hemingway
"But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people." — Andrea Martin
"The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope." — Henry Ward Beecher
"Do you know how many calories are in butter and cheese and ice cream? Would you get your dog up in the morning for a cup of coffee and a donut?" — Jack LaLanne
"It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience." — Bernadette Peters
"I'm still figuring out why people would want to look at me. Maybe it's generic beauty, but it's weird to be valued for something I was born with." — Josie Maran
"I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again." — Christopher Hitchens
"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." — Jean Paul
"I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time." — Norah Jones
"Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor." — Benjamin Franklin
"It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room." — Terry Pratchett
"Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith." — Mahatma Gandhi
"I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished." — Christiane Amanpour
"I've always been able to keep my private life separate from my business." — Ashley Tisdale
"Twitter is the most amazing medium for a comedy writer. I can't get in every idea I want on the show no matter how hard I try to bully the other writers, so it's a way of me getting out other comic ideas and immediately getting feedback." — Mindy Kaling
"Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience." — Kin Hubbard
"I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes." — Douglas MacArthur
"But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith." — Anna Letitia Barbauld
"I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them." — Bill Murray
"There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind." — A. Bartlett Giamatti
"Well, I'm not good with sliminess. I hate the thought of creatures that have slime on them or creatures that leave a slimy trail. At home, the sight of a slug can bring up my breakfast." — Jenny Eclair
"I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit." — Eminem
"I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early." — Francois Truffaut
"The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal." — Elia Kazan
"Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places." — Paul Theroux
"My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology." — Sidney Altman
"All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and I just loved the warm hearted people who worked so hard with such good humor." — Graham Kerr
"Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes." — Euripedes
"We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education." — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government." — Barry Goldwater
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." — William Butler Yeats
"Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known." — Nigel Farage
"I'm not broke. Like everybody else, I owe money." — Marlee Matlin
"Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in." — Jerry Saltz
"If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live." — Ron Paul
"It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs." — Miguel de Unamuno
"We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power." — Manuel Puig
"Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man." — John Burroughs
"Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend." — Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it." — Ayn Rand
"Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower." — Hans Christian Anderson
"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered." — Aeschylus
"What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?" — Thomas a Kempis
"James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies." — Joe Morton
"If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it." — James A. Garfield
"Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?" — Earl Wilson
"Lotta people don't realize when you grow up with people, you have an affinity, a relationship you don't get with anyone else. After you're twenty years old, anyone you meet after that, it's different from the people you knew before." — Joseph Jarman
"I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of the natives of India for high offices and employments." — Richard Cobden
"I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs." — Taylor Swift
"That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals." — Peter Singer
"The most important thing about technology is that it can seamlessly work its way into your routine and your life." — John Legend
"Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation." — Gertrude Stein
"A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know." — Laurence J. Peter
"But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business." — Marco Rubio
"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die." — Voltaire
"I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values." — Al Sharpton
"Don't get me wrong - I've gone to a club. But I'd much rather be with my close friends at home or a concert, or on a trip. I'll go dancing with my grandma. She likes to cut a rug!" — Zac Efron
"Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication." — Karen Black
"I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too." — Larry Hagman
"Leadership is something I was born with." — Carmelo Anthony
"When you're younger, your inspiration is there. As you get older, it tends to waver. Once you find it - I found it again - that's where you can draw from. That's where you draw your strength from." — Elvis Stojko
"When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules, but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls, and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If you've got an adolescent boy, you're in the sweet spot for trouble." — Jeffrey Kluger
"Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks." — Thomas Browne
"The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag." — Steven Patrick Morrissey
"Life is full of happiness and tears be strong and have faith." — Kareena Kapoor
"These days I travel so much it's hard to get into a routine. When I'm on the road, I tend to use hotel gyms. When I'm home in L.A., I like to hike and hit the surf. All in all, I try to keep a balanced diet and exercise routine, which has stood me in good stead to date." — Curtis Stone
"All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking." — Friedrich Nietzsche
"Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not." — Ursula K. Le Guin
"We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile." — Earl Nightingale
"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it." — Laurence J. Peter
"Truthful words are not beautiful beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive persuasive words are not good." — Lao Tzu
"There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously." — Lope de Vega
"There are people who own cars and are getting free cell phones. A car helps one find a job, too. Where do you draw the line?" — Timothy Griffin
"Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose also the first announcement of death." — Peter Conrad
"My dad was a musician. He was a singer and he played the guitar, so music was always around." — Kris Allen
"Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it." — Kevyn Aucoin
"President Obama's version of America is a divided one - pitting us against each other based on our income level, gender, and social status. His policies have failed! We are not better off than we were 4 years ago, and no rhetoric, bumper sticker, or campaign ad can change that." — Mia Love
"No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence." — Yitzhak Rabin
"My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model." — Arlen Specter
"Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart." — Pablo Casals
"It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death." — Jacqueline Cochran
"It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." — Joseph Stalin
"Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four." — Chris Rock
"I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life." — Willie Mays
"You have no time to do the science if you're talking to the media." — James Hansen
"Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself." — Niccolo Machiavelli
"There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge." — Michel de Montaigne
"We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us." — Lucy Maud Montgomery
"I think money in general hurts all sports." — Will McDonough
"Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young." — J. K. Rowling
"It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected." — Gerald R. Ford
"I'm a sucker for sad disco pop." — Sophie Ellis-Bextor
"Education is hanging around until you've caught on." — Robert Frost
"I was a vegan for two years, and I really enjoyed it. Then, I got to a point in my life at which I wanted to do something else, so now I'm a vegetarian. You should make your diet one that best fits you and how you feel. Listen to your body. The most important thing is to exercise, drink lots of water, and take really good care of yourself." — Lea Michele
"It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier's death." — Christopher Shays
"But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence." — Vernor Vinge
"I'm going to be in technology for a long time." — Eric Lefkofsky
"It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope." — Manuel Puig
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony." — Lionel Trilling
"I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep." — Andy Warhol
"At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality." — Princess Masako
"My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness." — Woodrow Wilson
"Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat." — Wendell Berry
"What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people." — Robert Duvall
"I am incredibly thankful for the strong support I have from my peers in the industry and of course my amazing fans." — Miranda Lambert
"Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth." — June Jordan
"The people of Israel are entitled, as is any other nation, to live in peace and safety." — Jonathan Sacks
"What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish." — W. H. Auden
"It's almost seems as though there's a battle going on between the public and all the fast-food establishments, and, believe me, I think it's very tasty food." — Regis Philbin
"Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war." — Otto von Bismarck
"If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good." — Barbara Ehrenreich
"Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten." — Conrad Hall
"I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions." — Tony Campolo
"Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted." — Michael Behe
"The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more women, their rights and nothing less." — Franklin P. Adams
"I feel like there was justice. It was served through the legal system you know. Everything that I endured. It was all worth it." — Amber Frey
"Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union." — Aldrich Ames
"I think since I was kid people told me that they thought I was funny." — Demetri Martin
"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." — Thomas A. Edison
"Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better." — Sydney J. Harris
"We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself." — Lloyd Alexander
"Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive." — Scott Adams
"The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one." — Honore de Balzac
"Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty." — Ronald Reagan
"The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman." — Gerard Depardieu
"When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before." — Blaise Pascal
"Denzel's quality, I think, is his faith. You have all the action in your head and you have to believe in it and just do it. That's what he does and that's what he taught me to do." — Derek Luke
"You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism." — W. Somerset Maugham
"It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person." — Paul Watzlawick
"Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten." — Andre Breton
"Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy." — Dan Gable
"Faith is different from proof the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God." — Blaise Pascal
"Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place." — Edmund Spenser
"The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty ." — Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
"I've never had siblings, I didn't grow up in a big family it was just me and my single mom. And hectic family dysfunction was actually something that I craved." — Emmy Rossum
"Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society." — Ahmet Necdet Sezner
"It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection." — Oscar Wilde
"My earliest memory is seeing Michael Jackson in Melbourne with my sister when I was about ten. I still have this souvenir stick with a glove that would light up and make a peace sign in a bunch of different colors. I'm so happy my mom didn't throw that out." — Emilie de Ravin
"Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist." — Steven Levy
"It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature." — Christopher Morley
"If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America." — Eldridge Cleaver
"I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind." — Martin Scorsese
"Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job." — Michael Stuhlbarg
"Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude." — Dale Carnegie
"Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's really like magic because you transform reality for people." — Louis C. K.
"I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents we're all teachers - if we're willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door." — Marla Gibbs
"So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God." — Smokey Robinson
"I feel like every project I've ever done has had music involved in it somehow." — Ashley Tisdale
"Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will." — Dan Millman
"The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop." — Terry Pratchett
"Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves." — Chuck Palahniuk
"If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own." — Henry Ford
"Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too." — Jerry B. Jenkins
"Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because it's shameful, or, in some circumstances, dangerous. The fear response is automatic, though, and your body runs through its reflexes whether you want it to or not." — Sebastian Junger
"Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera." — Mason Cooley
"I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They won't offer real plans, and only stand up when they want to blame someone else." — Susana Martinez
"The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom, no clock can measure." — William Blake
"A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances." — Douglas Dunn
"Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?" — Andrew Greeley
"Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work." — Karl Jaspers
"After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts." — Leon Panetta
"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race." — H. G. Wells
"Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part." — John Deacon
"Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?" — Mahatma Gandhi
"I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive." — Stephen Bayley
"We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth." — Carl Jung
"I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case." — Warren Christopher
"A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you." — Elizabeth Edwards
"You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil buy it, by compromise with evil." — John Ruskin
"All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way." — Patrick Warburton
"Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content." — John Dykstra
"In finding love, I think it's important to be patient. In being in a relationship, I think it's important to be honest, to communicate, to respect and trust, and to strive to give more than you take." — Kina Grannis
"Work alone is noble." — Thomas Carlyle
"The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense." — George Berkeley
"Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril." — William Lloyd Garrison
"For a long time all I wanted for Christmas were books about outdoor survival. I was convinced that the woods were calling me. I camped a lot, I took classes. At 18, I told myself if I don't live in the woods by myself by the time I'm 25, I have failed." — Chris Evans
"I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do." — David Antin
"It really lasted the whole game, because I was really untouchable, unstoppable that game. But it was heightened on one particular play, and that was the longest run where everything completely slowed down. My awareness was so keen, it was so heightened, it was really amazing." — Marcus Allen
"A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money." — W. C. Fields
"There is a different future that is available to North Korea, if they choose differently." — Mitchell Reiss
"The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart." — Henry Ward Beecher
"I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally." — Steve Hackett
"The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected." — William Hall
"It is a sad day for our country when the moral foundation of our law and the acknowledgment of God has to be hidden from public view to appease a federal judge." — Soledad O'Brien
"It gets kinda monotonous, but that's television. There are plus sides and down sides. The positive side is that you have steady work for nine months of the year for however many years your show is on TV,." — Alexis Bledel
"It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it." — Eleanor Roosevelt
"But by providing the background picture - the universal situational awareness that we desire - by showing the anomalies, the Space-Based Radar will change the nature of how we do our analysis and our intelligence." — Stephen Cambone
"Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it." — Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily." — Thomas Szasz
"I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change." — Danica McKellar
"How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking." — David Joseph Schwartz
"The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society." — Theresa May
"We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about." — Charlie Haden
"It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around." — Jennifer Beals
"I lived with my mom in a really small apartment. My bedroom was like in the living room. That's why I still love to sleep on couches now." — Alicia Keys
"The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge." — Rene Descartes
"To love someone means to see him as God intended him." — Fyodor Dostoevsky
"I can't drag myself away from 'Final Cut Pro.' It is a digital video editing system. I am obsessed with it, but I am always away from home, and I can't use it." — Margaret Cho
"Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business." — Bruce Barton
"When the people you love are gone, you're alone." — Keanu Reeves
"Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities." — George Boole
"In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue." — Paul Davies
"There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and blonde and blue-eyed and smiley. I'm totally the opposite of that. I want to show a bit more attitude and I have an opinion." — Samantha Mumba
"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country." — Kurt Vonnegut